From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sat Sep 16 08:47:24 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k8GElOjb000980; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 08:47:24 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k8GEl6Cn005546 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 08:47:15 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k8GBmPFI003819 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 07:48:25 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k8GBmPVw003818 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 07:48:25 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k8G91UFI003467 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 05:01:30 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k8GBgoCd031717 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 05:42:50 -0600 X-Envelope-From: juanita2@cox.net Sat Sep 16 05:42:50 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k8GBgojb031706 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 05:42:50 -0600 Received: from eastrmmtao04.cox.net (eastrmmtao04.cox.net [68.230.240.35]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k8GBgnQc027774 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 05:42:49 -0600 Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by eastrmmtao04.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20060916114245.FDRN25210.eastrmmtao04.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 07:42:45 -0400 Received: from DH433L51 ([24.255.150.191]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id NziR1V007481DKL0000000 Sat, 16 Sep 2006 07:42:26 -0400 From: "juanita" To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 06:42:46 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <450B9CE6.16666.C7DF9C3@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20060916021128.87826.qmail@web55405.mail.re4.yahoo.com> References: <200609152000.k8FK07Us025400@lists5.rootsweb.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: wwii ration books - C C C Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com I don't know how the ration books of WW II can be used particularly for genealogy, except they may indicate where a person was at the time they were issued. I remember my girl friend and I were on vacation and were traveling from Oklahoma to California in May 1942 and everyone had to register that day for the sugar ration book. We happened to be driving thru Winslow AZ on that particular day and stopped to register at a school house at noon and signed up. I never spent more than a few hours in Winslow. I still have the cover of the book. I have about a dozen "left-over" books from that time frame for the different products being rationed. Part of them are books that my parents used .... some still have stamps left. About all they have on them is a person's name ... and where the book was issued, so I suppose that particular info would be of significance to a researcher. People would have a hard time trying to figure out why my books were registered in about a half dozen different places. There's little else to find out if they looked for me in any of those places as I didn't stay long in any of them. As for C C C information - here's an interesting website: http://members.aol.com/famjustin/ccchis.html juanita > great idea! i have often heard different members of my family speak > of their ration books during WWII. never even thought to connect any > with the idea of using them for genealogy. I have to check to see if > they still have any of theirs. > Does anyone know about how to pursue getting records from the > three C's [civilian conservation corp] that existed prior to WWII > in the 1930's? my dad was a member and while i know he worked in > California and Wisconsin, i don't know the camp names or the unit > numbers, Thanks for any help that comes my way, A.Jones >